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[[File:Valdes Leal - Finis Gloriae Mundi.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Juan de Valdés Leal]], ''Finis gloriae mundi'' (1672). [[Seville]], [[Hospital de la Caridad (Seville)|Hospital de la Caridad]]]]
'''''Sic transit gloria mundi''''' is a [[Latin]] [[List of Latin phrases|phrase]] that means "thus passes the glory of the world". In idiomatic contexts, the phrase has been used to mean "fame is fleeting".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Merton |first=Sophia |date=2022-10-07 |title='Sic Transit Gloria Mundi': Definition, Meaning, and Examples |url=https://writingtips.org/sic-transit-gloria-mundi/ |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=Writing Tips |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=30 Latin Phrases Everyone Should Know – Page 6 – 24/7 Wall St. |url=https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/09/12/latin-phrases-everyone-should-know/6/ |access-date=2022-10-17 |language=en-US}}</ref>▼
The phrase was used in the ritual of [[papal coronation]] ceremonies between 1409 (when it was used at the coronation of [[Antipope Alexander V|Alexander V]])<ref name="Phraseandfable" /> and 1963. As the newly chosen Pope proceeded from the [[sacristy]] of [[St. Peter's Basilica]] in his [[sedia gestatoria]], the procession stopped three times. On each occasion, a papal master of ceremonies would fall to his knees before the
▲On each occasion, a papal master of ceremonies would fall to his knees before the pope, holding a silver or brass reed, bearing a [[tow (fibre)|tow]] of smoldering [[flax]]. For three times in succession, as the [[cloth]] burned away, he would say in a loud and mournful voice, "''Pater Sancte, sic transit gloria mundi''!" ("Holy Father, so passes worldly glory!").<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/XEk4D5cnNls Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140403020811/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEk4D5cnNls Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEk4D5cnNls|title=Papal Coronation 07 -Sic transit gloria mundi|via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref> These words, thus addressed to the pope, served as a reminder of the [[Universal destination of goods|transitory nature of life and earthly honours]].<ref>{{citation |first=William Henry Francis | last=King |title=Classical and Foreign Quotations |publisher=London: J. Whitaker & Sons |year=1904 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yoUVAAAAMAAJ&pg=319 |page=319 |access-date=November 10, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-eVh-lxCi0C&pg=PA393 |title=Reclaiming Rome: cardinals in the fifteenth century |first=Carol M. | last=Richardson |year=2009 |page=393 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-9004171831 |access-date=November 10, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m6nsnzLRPlIC&pg=PA187 |title=Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual | first =János M. | last = Bak |date=January 1990 |page=187 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520066779 |access-date=November 10, 2010}}</ref>
A form of the phrase appeared in [[Thomas à Kempis]]'s 1418 work [[The Imitation of Christ (book)|''The Imitation of Christ'']]: "''{{lang|la|O quam cito transit gloria mundi}}''" ("How quickly the glory of the world passes away").<ref>{{citation |title=Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (via Oxford Reference)|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100504553?rskey=l3W1UC&result=1}}</ref><ref name="kempis" />
▲In idiomatic contexts, the phrase has been used to mean "fame is fleeting".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Merton |first=Sophia |date=2022-10-07 |title='Sic Transit Gloria Mundi': Definition, Meaning, and Examples |url=https://writingtips.org/sic-transit-gloria-mundi/ |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=Writing Tips |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=30 Latin Phrases Everyone Should Know – Page 6 – 24/7 Wall St. |url=https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/09/12/latin-phrases-everyone-should-know/6/ |access-date=2022-10-17 |language=en-US}}</ref>
==In literature and art==
* [[William Wordsworth]]'s 1802 "[[Ode: Intimations of Immortality]]" deals with the disappearance of "the glory and the dream", and the end of the second stanza includes a literal translation of the line: "There hath pass'd a glory from the earth."
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* An 1819 etching by British illustrator [[George Cruikshank]] is titled ''The Sailors Progress: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Sailors Progress: Sic transit gloria Mundi |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/814526 |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=metmuseum.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Sailors Progress. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. |url=https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/217334 |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=philamuseum.org |language=en}}</ref>
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s novel ''[[Starman Jones]]'', toward the end of Chapter 12 "Halcyon",
* The first
* [[Robert Hugh Benson]]'s novel ''[[Lord of the World]]'' ends with a reference to the phrase: "Then this world passed, and the glory of it."
* It is the last line spoken in the movie ''[[The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)|The Masque of the Red Death]]'', by the Red Death after he reveals he spared six from his plague.
* In the opening scene of the final episode of [[Babylon 5]], season 4 entitled "The Deconstructions of Falling Stars," a person in the crowd welcoming President Sheridan and Ambassador Delenn can be seen holding a sign that reads "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi".
*The [[Alternative rock|alternative]] band [[Brand New (band)|Brand New]] named a single from their 2003 album [[Deja Entendu]], "[[Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades|Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades]]".
*In the video game [[Alundra 2]], the key priest, in the cutscene where Pierre gets turned in Dun Webb, uses the line "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Ghost ex Machina!"
*In the video game [[Overwatch 2]], The character "Soldier 76" uses the voice line "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi."
*In the feature film '[[The Tracker (2002 film)|The Tracker]]' (2002) directed by [[Rolf de Heer]], a fanatical policeman says "sic transit gloria mundi", each word accompanied by him pointing a pistol where the heads of a group of [[Indigenous Australians]] had been minutes before. He was a significant participant in their slaughter and explains to the other characters that the phrase means 'So passes the glorious world.'
*In the book series, '[[Monster Hunter International]]' at Monster Hunter International's memorial wall for fallen monster hunters.
== See also ==
* ''[[In ictu oculi]]'', the companion painting to ''Finis gloriae mundi''▼
* ''[[
* [[This too shall pass]]
* [[Vanitas]]
▲*''[[In ictu oculi]]'', the companion painting to ''Finis gloriae mundi''
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